linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/2] lockdep: initialize lockdep debugging statistics

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Message-Id: <1236336363.6326.139.camel@laptop>
Date:	Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:46:03 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/2] lockdep: initialize lockdep debugging statistics

On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 02:27 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> That's the point about good software engineering practices: atomic_t 
> should not be assumed to be another int. 

We do, and its a rather fundamental assumption. Any implementation not
conforming is deemed buggy -- esp on the 0 property.

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/216

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